Powers Boothe Quotes
If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.
Quotes to Explore
-
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
-
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
-
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
-
Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
-
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
-
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
-
The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
-
It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
-
I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
-
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
-
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
-
If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
-
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.
-
I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
-
I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
-
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
-
You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
-
At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation.
-
Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
-
I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
-
When we started Poco, we were too country for rock, and we were too rock for country.
-
If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.
